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Why can planes "fly" but AI cannot "think"?
An airplane does not flap its wings. And an autopilot is not the same as a pilot. Still, everybody is ok with saying that a plane "flies" and an autopilot "pilots" a plane.
This is the difference between the same system and a system that performs the same function.
When it comes to flight, we focus on function, not mechanism. A plane achieves the same outcome as birds (staying airborne) through entirely different means, yet we comfortably use the word "fly" for both.
With Generative AI, something strange happens. We insist that only biological brains can "think" or "understand" language. In contrast to planes, we focus on the system, not the function. When AI strings together words (which it does, among other things), we try to create new terms to avoid admitting similarity of function.
When we use a verb to describe an AI function that resembles human cognition, we are immediately accused of "anthropomorphizing." In some way, popular opinion dictates that no system other than the human brain can think.
I wonder: why?
Anyone who uses gen AI is my opp, status report:
People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification
This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart
It’s something of a tradition to occasionally frankenstein together a backronym for bills/acts. Feel free to search “worst US backronyms” or similar for more!
Man, fuck NESA* for thinking this was ok.
For further context, all NSW high school students need to take an English course** as part of their final studies.
The english exam is spoken about in hushed tones as the normalising factor that determines which bucket of scores you and your cohort are allowed to have. Go to a bad school? Good luck getting an ATAR that’s not a patronising ⭐️, meaning you scored in the bottom 30 percent. Million dollar+ local tutoring companies exist to pump out essays that can score in the high 90’s. Some parents spend tens of thousands on elementary school tutoring just to get their students into high schools with good english scores, or choose to uproot the ENTIRE family unit and move to whole new schooling areas for similar reasons. It’s a small price to pay if you want your kid to have a shot at entering an ultra-competitive undergraduate degree, like medicine. One day, your kid will thank you.
Imagine you’re in the final year of high school, and you’re being force-fed the panic-attack inducing lie that these high school -> university exams are the most important, fate-defining thing you’ll face in life. Then comes day one of a month-long exam season. It’s the big one. English part 1. All the pressure is on you to succeed. You turn the page, and you’re met with the visual equivalent of a conjunctivitis inducing wet fart right into your eye sockets. You and your gen Z friends have spent the little spare time you had shitposting on the internet, but it was enough to know exactly what chocolate starfish you’re staring into.
At that point, I would forgive any NSW high schooler for, once the pink eye settles, self radicalising via the treatises of a certain Ted K***.
*Formerly the Board of Studies (BoS), succeeded by the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW (BOSTES), now just the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA). These rebrands are important work!
**There are different english courses you can take. Each high school offers a different array of english courses. Explaining this more only awakens deep trauma within me.
***Ted Kennedy, of course. Please don’t arrest me, AFP
Can you prove that ChatGPT is not conscious? No. The hard problem of consciousness cuts both ways. Right now there is no way to know one way or the other.
You, when you step in dog shit: "Oh no!!! I'm sorry, Mr. Conscious Poop, who is conscious because I can't prove that you aren't!"
Ares was the god of peace really
According to books, which are smart and true, war is peace, so this is true!
Headcanon is that somebody criticised the theming of many of the homebrew commands (brew, tap, cask, bottle, formula etc.) as being IPA-enthusiast level insufferable, and the maintainer proceeded to respond in the worst fucking way
Haha did one of us update this? I am on mobile and can’t be bothered checking the edit logs
The moster successfullest implement eugenics. The mostest successfullest peoplest createst fascest ethnostatest
The chatbot recommends the patient see a touring clown to cheer them up, only for the patient to reveal that they are themselves that same clown???